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Old July 3rd 05, 10:07 PM
Denny B
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"Kathy and Erich Coiner" > wrote in message
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> Worst comes to worse, you can grind/ break the heads of the bolts

off the
> cylinder Then use new hardware with the new cylinder.
>
> My trick for getting tubing nuts off is this.
>



> First place a tubing wrench on the nut. Then take vise grips and

close them
> over the wrench.
> The vise grips keep the wrench from flexing open as you bust the nut

loose.
> Use big enough vise grips and you can prevent rounding off the nut.
>
> Erich


Thanks for this above tip, using a vice grip over
a tubing wrench. It happened to me once where
I rounded a tubing nut and had a heck of a time
getting it off.
This vice grip method should prevent that
from haappening.

Denny B










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